When I said Mum drank they emphatically said ‘No no no she doesn’t’.
You’d walk home wondering what mess she was in, and what you would have to do to keep the peace.
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You’d walk home wondering what mess she was in, and what you would have to do to keep the peace.
The most surprising thing to me is just how many people think and feel exactly as I do and how it is all so closely linked to being a COA.
When the bell rung at 3pm, most of my friends couldn’t wait to get out of school. For me, I dreaded that sound.
When I look back I seem to have spent a lot of my childhood cleaning, the only way I could make myself calm in the chaos.
I can’t do anything for my mother – she doesn’t want me, she wants brandy.
Why do I go back to her out of fear of what she is doing to herself?
I never knew how I would feel the day I lost her as our relationship was turbulent.
He has never forgiven me for ‘abandoning’ him at this point.
What I want my parents, and everyone else to know, is that these things that hurt the people we love.
I kind of treated her illness as my illness, as though we were both alcoholics.
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